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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Today's attack mode: Donald Trump Jr,. an obnoxious character, son of the U.S. president, who is a chip off the old block, has been exposed by the U.S. secret police, using the New York Times as their megaphone, as having met with a Russian lawyer. The lawyer claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton- turned out she didn't.

Initially, moron Donald Jr. said the meeting was about adopting Russian children- an obvious, ludicrous lie. The Trumps seem adept at digging themselves in deeper and deeper in the political hole they're in.

So today we're being treated to the word "treason." Treason? The U.S. isn't at war with Russia. So there is no treason in an actual criminal law sense. The idea of "treason" is straight out of the McCarthy-Nixon-GOP playbook of 1947-1960, which the Democrats have latched onto as their strategy to try and topple Trump.

"Treason" having been so very loosely defined as being in cahoots with
an enemy (Russia), what about the multimillion dollar donation to the
Clinton Foundation in exchange for allowing Russian interests to buy
uranium mines, approved by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? [1]

We're also getting "experts," from the secret police fraternity, no less, (like on NPR), saying this is a violation of campaign finance law, because information has value, and receiving such a "contribution" from a foreign source is illegal.

Well then, if "information" equals an illegal donation, what about that dodgy dossier compiled by BRITISH CITIZEN and former MI6 secret policeman Christopher Steele? He offered it to Trump's GOP rivals and to the Clinton campaign, and finally the U.S. secret police in the person of James "Mr. Upright" Comey, then-FBI Director, briefed Trump about it. Or for that matter, the numerous foreign contributions received by Bill Clinton back when, and the donors fled overseas to avoid investigators? No mention of THAT of course.

The hypocrisy and double-standards are breathtaking. As is the total obsession of U.S. media blatherers with every new arrow they can fire at Trump. (While barely covering the viciousness of his domestic policies. No surprise there. The entire power structure is fundamentally reactionary and thus objectively enemies of the overwhelming majority of the American population.) These propagandists and political hacks are apparently unaware that they are in a bubble, and that most people most probably could care less about all this nitpicking. Every day, a new molehill is blown up into a mountain by the propaganda system. Amazing.

I certainly agree that Trump is a rotten choice for president. But EVERY U.S. president has been rotten, only some more than others, because the U.S. has always been an evil empire. There are principled ways to oppose Trump. Unsurprisingly, the ruling elites and their minions have chosen an unprincipled way. True to their character.

One more point. One of the day's big propaganda talking points is that Donald Jr. should have immediately ran to the FBI and reported the approach to him! This is how far into a police state mentality the "liberals" of the media and Democratic Party are dragging us! It's thoroughly despicable. They are empowering the most evil part of the power structure more than ever, namely the secret police agencies, primarily the FBI, CIA, and NSA. They are treated as demigods now, and they are some of the most vile and malicious organs on the earth.

The UK-based Henry Jackson Society issued a report about Saudi
Arabia's guilt as a wellspring of Sunni jihadi Islamofascist (my word)
terrorism. This got a few sentences in the headline news of the British
government's propaganda agency, the BBC "World Service" in English this
morning. The Saudis utterly false, vehement denial was prominently
reported. Also mentioned was the Society report scoring the Saudis for
hypocrisy for blaming the Qataris for "supporting terrorism." (A mention
dropped in later versions, which moved the Saudi lies to the top.)

By
4:30 AM EST the item was reduced to a single sentence: "Saudi Arabia
has rejected accusations by a London think tank that it is the source of
extremism in the UK." Back to backing the Saudis after just a couple of
hours. Then repetition of Saudi attacks on Qatar, including playing a
Saudi ruler's rant that Qater must "stop supporting terrorism, stop
spreading hate." Unbelievable. Bastards living in a glass mansion
hypocritically hurling boulders at Qatar. And the BBC has already
forgotten the Jackson Society report in only a couple of hours. What
does "BBC" stand for? Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation?

The
BBC has been assiduous in its avoiding of any mention of Saudi
culpability in the spread of Islamofascist Wahhabi-Salafist terrorism.
Nor does it mention the fact that Saudi Arabia caused the current
cholera epidemic and famine in Yemen, by bombing critical
infrastructure, including power, water, and hospitals, and with a naval
blockade that has cut off food imports on which Yemen depends. So what
accounts for this lapse? It's the fact that a "respected" (BBC's word)
right-wing think tank has spoken. Right-wingers are politically and
ideologically dominant in "the West." Thus they get special privileges,
including the privilege of being heard.

The Jackson Society
also called for the release of a suppressed UK government report on
Saudi backing for terrorism- another matter the BBC has tread extremely
lightly over, to say the least.

The Henry Jackson Society is
named after a dead U.S. Senator, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, who was known as
"the Senator from Boeing," because he promoted the interests of that
military arms manufacturer. (Boeing's other main business is commercial
aircraft manufacture.) Boeing is headquartered in the state of
Washington, on the west coast of the continental U.S. (Not to be
confused with the city of Washington, D.C., i.e. District of
Columbia, the capital of the U.S., on the east coast.) A Democrat and a
rabid militarist, Jackson was one of the two Senators from the state of
Washington. (Another note to non-Americans, and to ignorant Americans:
as per the U.S. Constitution, every U.S. state has two U.S. Senators,
regardless of population. There are currently 50 states, thus 100
Senators. This is highly anti-democratic. The 20 or so least populous
U.S. states have the same population as the state of California, yet
have 40 Senators to California's 2. What an ideal democracy! One reason
for the utterly reactionary nature of the U.S. political system is the
fact that all these rural, reactionary states dominate the U.S. Senate.)

A new Pew poll of citizens of non-U.S.nations finds a precipitous
decline in the "favorable" view of the U.S. under president Donald "Huge
Narcissist" Trump. Only about a quarter of people polled outside the
U.S. have a "favorable" opinion of the U.S. under Trump.

This
is good news. Under Obama, millions, maybe billions, of credulous idiots
around the world were taken in by the clever, dangerous con man Barack
"The Drone Assassin" Obama and had a "favorable" view of the violently
imperialist, destructive U.S. The Trump results contrast with an
unbelievable 60% who thought well of the U.S. during the Obama regime.
Europeans in particular are stubborn fans of the criminal Obama, a
sneaky, evil man who greatly strengthened the secret police state here,
among numerous other crimes against humanity. He was also a brutal
repressor of dissent, which is of a piece with perfecting a secret
police state.

Of course, since the U.S. is mostly (but not
entirely) a force for evil in the world, it is more realistic to have an
"unfavorable" view of the U.S. Unfortunately international public
opinion is totally subjective and swings like a weather vane according
to the subjective impression of the likeability of whoever happens to be
the Chief Imperialist of the U.S. at the moment.

Going
against the trend, Russians had a more favorable opinion of the U.S.
under Trump. This has yet to be justified by real changes in U.S. policy
towards Russia. Trump has not eased sanctions against Russia, imposed
to punish Russia for daring to resist the U.S.-bloc's political
annexation of Ukraine. In Syria there is real conflict between the U.S.
and Russia, with Russia supporting the murderous Assad regime with
combat aircraft, and the U.S. fighting ISIS and other Islamist groups
(while assiduous avoiding fighting the Assad regime). The U.S. just shot
down an Assad regime warplane that was attacking or threatening
U.S.-allied forces and their U.S. helpers on the ground. Russia
responded by announcing that henceforth U.S. planes over Syria would be
"targets." (An ambiguous term which implies they might be
fired upon.) And Russia has ended communications with the U.S. military
over Syria, which had been used to avoid aerial conflict by the two
nations' warplanes over Syria as they bomb their chosen targets- the
Russians to help Assad, the U.S. targeting ISIS etc. However, Trump
conspicuously did not carry on the hostile anti-Russian tone of the
Obama regime. Trump's reluctance to get with the anti-Russian program of
U.S. elites is the main reason he is under relentless attack by an
unholy alliance of the Democratic, Party, the corporate media, and the
main secret police agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA).

The BBC also just
announced the results of their own poll of 36,000 people in various
countries. Only a third thought the U.S. was a force for good. (Amazing
that a third of the world's people STILL don't get it!) Canada came out
on tops as a Good Guy nation. Britain ranked down with the U.S. That
should be no surprise, since the British ruling class has tied their
nation tightly to the U.S. ever since World War II, like Odysseus bound
to the mast of his ship to enjoy the sweet singing of the Sirens without
hurling himself to his own doomed, lured by their irresistible voices.
The British similarly were lured by the self-deception that the U.S.
would serve their imperialist interests, and not vice versa as it turned out. Their innate snobbery caused them to underestimate the savvy of the American imperialists.

Now
Israel, on the other hand, has the U.S. wrapped around its little
finger! And that's almost entirely down to the power of organized Jews
in the U.S. The Anglophile WASP elite of the U.S. didn't deliver for
"Great" Britain what some Jews in the U.S. have done!

An oddity of history: a small nation dominating a much larger, much more powerful one. May be unique in the annals of nations.

Monday, July 03, 2017

Tongues are clucking and fingers are wagging at Donald Trump, the current president of the U.S. (and thus the man in charge of maintaining and expanding U.S. global dominance and preserving the hegemony of billionaires everywhere possible) for insulting Mika Brzezinski.

For something like 99.999% of the world's population, Mika Brzezinski is an unknown person. But U.S. political and media elites, who genuinely feel themselves to be at the center of the universe, have the attitude that they are "everybody." In fact, the words "everyone" and "everybody" have been used in regard to this pathetic contretemps.

For days on end now, if you turn on a radio or television, or look at a news website, you're deluged with the scandal du jour, Trump's Meanness to Mika. The U.S. media actually thinks this is something Important. (Apparently any club, or stick, or twig, with which to beat on Trump, will do.) The Washington Post, the hometown "news"paper of the capital city of the global U.S. empire, has numerous articles on its homepage devoted to this trivial story, all breathless in their outrage, shock, and indignation at the caddish, "inappropriate" (the mildest term of condemnation being used in the deluge of denunciations against Trump) behavior of Trump.

Brzezinski is where she is because her Daddy was the notorious imperialist apparatchik Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish emigre who harbored a lifelong hatred for and grudge against Russia. Brzezinski was the Man with the Plan to sucker-punch the Soviet Union by luring it into invading Afghanistan. In fact, it is true to say that if it hadn't been for U.S. machinations, the Soviet Union probably would never have invaded that country. The U.S. conspired to place a regime hostile to the S.U. in power in Afghanistan. Brzezinski, who was the "National Security" Advisor to U.S. president James Earl Carter, advised Carter that the Soviets could be sucked into a war in Afghanistan to bloody their nose, as it were, and as "payback" for the U.S.' self-inflicted Vietnam War (really Indochina War, as the U.S. devastated Cambodia and Laos in addition to destroying Vietnam) debacle.

Brzezinski is the co-host of a pointless TV show on MSNBC, hosted by her lover, Joe Scarborough, called, modestly, "Morning Joe." Scarborough was previously a Republican Congressman, so of course he is a right-winger. This ego trip program is centered around Scarborough spouting his opinions- and he has opinions on every topic, free of any special insight or edifying analysis- with others sitting around a table on a studio set to chat, and with power-system guests, meaning various politicians, polemicists, and what passes for "experts" in the pantheon of the U.S. propaganda system.

Scarborough was a Trump enthusiast and booster, but once the bourgeois elite turned against Trump with a vengeance, Scarborough duly sailed his little media boat with the tide and turned against Trump. So both he and his lover/co-host turned into harsh critics of Trump.

Eventually Trump responded as he always does when he perceives hostility or even resistance, with insults. He called Dear Mika "dumb," and this was taken as something beyond the pale by the blatherariat and various politicians. He claimed she turned up at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's personal Florida Xanadu, with her paramour, bleeding from her face from recent plastic surgery. Trump says the duo repeatedly sought admission through the Magic Gates, and were repeatedly turned away. The media elite were duly aghast at the unflattering comments about one of their own. Republican politicians weighed in, harrumphing that Trump should can the trash talk, as it was unseemly, beneath the dignity of the president (it's certainly not beneath Trump's personal dignity!) and, of course, "a distraction" from important matters, like gutting Medicaid for millions of people, lavishing billions in tax reductions on the ultra-rich, neutralizing the Environmental Protection Agency, increasing the military budget by 11%, and so on. (In that case, let's hope the "distractions" continue for however long Trump remains inflicted on the world as U.S. Emperor.)

Scarborough/Brzezinski then retailed a story asserting that Trump's minions threatened them with a hatchet job in the so-called "National Enquirer," controlled by Trump's longtime friend, admirer, and ally, David Pecker, unless they apologized to Trump and called him to beg him to spike the story. The Washington Post helpfully provided an op-ed slot for Joe and Mika to feed this story to the public.

Pecker rules a stable of pseudo-newspapers, burlesque versions of actual newspapers, that are placed weekly in racks right at tens of thousands of supermarket checkout lines. Thus millions of people see their covers and lurid headlines every week, and are at least subliminally influenced by them. Pecker's rags, with their drumbeat of Trump-boosting covers during the campaign for the presidency, no doubt aided Trump's "victory." (He actually lost to Clinton by 2.9 million votes, but under the bizarre system of U.S. "democracy," he won in the so-called Electoral College, which is what counts, not who people actually vote for.) [1]
Trump's side denied the Scarborough/Brzezinski extortion story, but it seems credible to me.

The Epitome of Elegance: the very debonair David Pecker

Even though Trump is besieged by hundreds of media voices and political hacks, he apparently never tires of punching back, and indeed of picking new fights, gratuitously, as when he speciously attacked the Mayor of London in the wake of a terrorist attack there on June 3. [2] I don't see Trump tiring of the constant conflict, because he thrives on it. Unlike what is often said about bullies, he is no coward. In fact, he's a lot gutsier than his predecessor, Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama, who always, always, shied away from taking on the GOP, and made numerous attempts to appease them. Likewise he rewarded Israeli prime minister Binjamin Netanyahu for heaping years of abuse and insults directed at him with a 10-year, $38 billion dollar gift of U.S. weapons, paid for by American taxpayers. [3]One could expect no end to the media's high dudgeon against Trump's rudeness to Mika until another factoid comes along for Trump's power establishment enemies to wax indignant and outraged over. Sure enough, something came along, in the form of a dopey 28-second video of Trump tackling someone at a burlesque "professional wrestling" show, with a CNN logo superimposed on the "victim's" head. Trump tweeted the video (allegedly the work of a known white racist) and the media were off to the races again. CNN issued a pained statement about Trump inciting violence against journalists and neglecting the duties of the presidency.

And all the while, the major propaganda offensive, "Russian meddling/interference in Our Democracy" has been non-stop political theme music for months now. The Democrats and most of the corporate media (and the prime movers behind this campaign, the secret police agencies FBI, CIA, and FBI that are the beating fascist heart of the Deep State) hope to build that into a crescendo that will oust Trump from the White House.

We shall see. This should be interesting. For the objective, perspicacious analysis that reveals the hidden truth, check back here regularly.

Poor Mika and Joe! Bullyboy Donald keeps PICKING on them!

MEANEST President EVER! He hurt Mika's feelings! And he exterminated Native Americans! And lots of Filipinos! And overthrew governments and imposed murderous fascist regimes in those countries! And he NUKED two defenseless cities! And laid waste to Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos! And... Oh wait, that was other presidents. Never mind.....

1] An example of Pecker using the rags he controls to help Trump was his publication during the GOP presidential primaries of a photo of Ted Cruz's fascist fanatic father next to CIA agent (not CIA officer) Lee Harvey Oswald, with the imputation that Cruz senior was involved in the JFK assassination, for which Oswald was the fallguy. When Trump picked up on this, he was roundly denounced by much of the media blatherariat, who are ever-alert and allergic to any examination of that assassination. (The picture proves nothing about Cruz senior's involvement with the JFK hit, of course.) Ted Cruz was also running for the GOP nomination for president at the time.

3] Two caveats to the Obama Cowardly Bully thesis. One is that he was a reactionary, who never had any intention of even trying to enact progressive policies. All his campaign rhetoric to the contrary was standard Democratic Party deception, perfected over several decades by that vile gang. Second, one wonders if he was trying to "triangulate" in the manner of his predecessor as president, fellow accomplished-con-man Bill "Mass Murderer Times 4" Clinton. Clinton outflanked Congressional Republicans on their right, gutting welfare and instituting 60 new Federal death penalty crimes, among other things. Then-leader of the House GOP, the political mountebank Newt Gingrich, felt compelled to go along. Obama tried something similar with his healthcare "reform," devised originally by the far-right wing Heritage Foundation. To his surprise, the Republicans in Congress adamantly refused to provide even a single vote for it. Apparently Obama hadn't read the news reports of Senate GOP Boss Mitch McConnell stating the Republican priority for the Obama regime- to ensure its "failure." The fact that the Gang Of Plunderers announced in advance their plan for total obstructionism wasn't enough to stop Appeaser-In-Chief Obama from repeatedly trying to craft rightwing legislation they would support. And when Obama was first elected, the Democrats held majorities in both Congressional chambers, and could have enacted progressive legislation. But then, this is a party that has had ample opportunities to repeal the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which is a key factor in the destruction of labor unions in the U.S. Yet they never had.

Unions that continue to support the Democratic Party are the equivalent of abused wives who never leave their abuser.

Still, the thesis stands. Obama consistently kow-towed to the powerful (like the financial industry) and took out his wrath on the weak, such as when he ordered the assassination of the 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki (who was driven into exile by the FBI and became a propagandist for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and arranged for the Egyptian secret police to break the arm of peace agitator Medea Benjamin in retaliation for interrupting one of his orotund, mendacious speeches. Or keeping political prisoner and then Army soldier Chelsea Manning naked for a year in a Marine Corps brig prior to being railroaded for revealing U.S. crimes to the world via a document transfer to WikiLeaks. Or the incredible persecution of Julian Assange. Or many more examples. For an excellent documentary on some of the lengths the U.S. has gone to "neutralize" Assange, using Britain and Sweden (and even Assange's native Australia) as willing puppets, see "Sex, Lies and Julian Assange," by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 4 Corners Program. It used to be available free on youtube, but now you have to pay. I downloaded it before that happened.